What Does It Mean When an Inequality is a Contradiction or Has No Solution?

What Does It Mean When an Inequality is a Contradiction or Has No Solution?

Note:

Can an inequality have no solution? You bet it can! An inequality has no solution will always give you a contradiction, no matter what value you plug in for the variable. Watch this tutorial, and then try to make your own inequality with no solution!

Keywords:

  • definition
  • no solution
  • inequality
  • contradiction
  • never true
  • always false
  • solution set
  • empty
  • no answer
  • false

Background Tutorials

  • communicate mathematical ideas, reasoning, and their implications using multiple representations, including symbols, diagrams, graphs, and language as appropriate

      • What's an Inequality?What's an Inequality?

      What's an Inequality?

      Inequalities come up all the time when you're working algebra problems. In this tutorial you'll learn what an inequality is, and you'll see all the common inequality symbols that you're likely to see :)